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African Political Economy


The LSE African Political Economy Group exists to provide research-focused interaction around issues of African politics, and to encourage engagement between LSE and top international scholars in African politics.

Research Pillar(s): Comparative Politics and Area Studies

About: The African Political Economy Group exists to provide research-focused interaction around issues of African politics, and to encourage engagement between LSE and top international scholars in African politics.

Members: Dr Sarah Brierley, Prof Catherine Boone, Dr Ryan Jablonski, Dr Omar McDoom, Dr Carl Müller-Crepon, Dr George Ofosu, Dr Joachim Wehner

Comparative Politics Seminar Series:

The African Political Economy group organize seminars as part of the Comparative Politics Series. These seminars are open to all faculty, fellows, and PhD students working on issues of African and Comparative politics, or related development or political economy issues. The group also jointly co-hosts a yearly Politics of Global South event which is an all-day conference for the discussion of ongoing research in African politics and political economy with scholars from across universities in London.

Comparative Politics Series Seminar Convener(s): Catherine Boone, Dr Carl Müller-Crepon, Dr George Ofosu, Mathias Poertner, Pavithra Suryanarayan.

If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please contact gov.comms@lse.ac.uk

Past seminars 2025/26

Autumn Term

Thursday 30 October, 12pm to 1.30pm
Jamie Hintson (Harvard University) 
CBG.4.17

Thursday 27 November, 12pm to 1.30pm
Amma Panin (University of Louvain) ONLINE ONLY 
CBG.4.17

Thursday 11 December, 12pm to 1.30pm
Rekgotsofetse Chikane (University of Witwatersrand/LSE)
CBG.4.17

Winter Term

Thursday 22 January, 12pm to 1.30pm
Kristin Michelitch (Toulouse School of Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences (TSE))
CBG.4.17

Thursday 12 February, 12pm to 1.30pm
Jaimie Bleck (Lehigh University)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 12 March, 12pm to 1.30pm
Gabrielle Lynch (University of Warwick)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 26 March, 12pm to 1.30pm
David Carter (Washington University, St. Louis)
CKK.2.08

Thursday 2 April, 12pm to 1.30pm
Ashrakat Elshehawy (University College London)
CBG.4.17

Spring Term

Thursday 21 May, 12pm to 1.30pm
Martha Wilfahrt (UC Berkeley)
CBG.4.17

 

Past seminars 2024/25

Autumn Term

Thursday 10 October, 12pm to 1.30pm
Andy Harris (NYU Abu Dhabi) 
CBG.4.17

Thursday 31 October, 12pm to 1.30pm
Daniel De Kadt (LSE) 
CBG.4.17

Winter Term

Thursday 20 February, 4pm to 5pm
Merete Bech Seeberg (Aarhus University)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 13 March, 12pm to 1.30pm
Kate Baldwin (Yale University)
CBG.4.17 

Thursday 3 April, 12pm to 1.30pm
Macartan Humphreys (WZB Berlin University)
CBG.4.17

Summer Term 

Thursday 8 May, 12pm to 1.30pm
Dotan Haim (Florida State University)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 22 May, 12pm to 1.30pm
John Marshall (Columbia University)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 19 June, 12pm to 1.30pm
Noah Nathan (MIT)
CBG.4.17

Past seminars 2023/24

Autumn Term

Thursday 5 October, 12pm to 1.30pm
Alex Scacco (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 19 October, 12pm to 1.30pm
Thalia Gerzso (LSE) and Carolin Dieterle (LSE)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 16 November, 12pm to 1.30pm
Aala Abdelgadir (Princeton University)
CBG.4.17

Winter Term

Thursday 18 January, 12pm to 1.30pm
Martin Williams (University of Oxford)
CBG.4.17

Thursday 7 March, 12pm to 1.30pm
Abhit Bhandari (Vanderbilt University)
CBG.4.17 

Thursday 14 March, 12pm to 1.30pm
Victor Agboga (LSE) and Tessa Devereaux Evans (Cornell University)
CBG.2.02

Thursday 28 March, 12pm to 1.30pm
Arinze Nwokolo (Lagos Business School)
CBG.4.17